[fpc-devel] Improving Ref Counting

Uberto Barbini uberto at ubiland.net
Sun Feb 27 20:47:30 CET 2005


> >>Why are you looking at GC/Refcounting when the problem is the
> >> try..finally? It is better to rewrite the try..finally code using the
> >> C++ ABI for exception handling.
> >
> > +1
> > and it'd be benefical to all applications.
>
> Using the C++ ABI the overhead is almost zero.

Out of curiosity, can you be more specific on why using C++ Application Binary 
Interface will reduce overhead?

Bye Uberto




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